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Published by the Catholic Lay men's Association of Georgia "To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed" Vol. XXXIII. No. 4 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 26, 1952 ISSUED MONTHLY—$3.00 A YEAR NUNCIO GREETED BY PRESIDENT Archbishop Gerald Patrick O’Hara, Bishop of Savarmah-Atlanta and new Papal Nuncio to Ireland is warmly greeted by President Sean O’Kelly when hei calls to prestent his credentials at the president's home in Phoenix Park, Dublin. The Archbishop was ousted from his diplomatic post in Communist Roumania, where he represented the Holy See. (NC Photos) Archbishop O'Hara Welcomed as Papal Nuncio by Irish Hierarchy Easter Vivil Rifes On Holy Saturday At Abbey in Conyers CONYERS, Ga. — (NC) — The Risen Christ came to the hills of northern Georgia at the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost here with the Easter Vigil kept by more than ninety mem bers of the Cistercian community. To the chapel came also visitors from as far away as Chicago, Miami. New York, and Philadel phia, who vied for kneeling space with non-Cathoiic neighbors from the nearby Georgia tovfns. Catholics and non-Catholics alike were lifted out of the level of a busy world for several hours dur ing the ceremonies. Many for the first time were edified by the beau tiful intonations of Gregorian chant as the choir monks intoned their office, the famed Salve Regina, and the Pontifical High Mass solemnized by the Most Rev. Dom Robert McGann, Abbot at Congers. While living the ritual with the Trappists, the visitors witnessed the flaming of the new fire, the burning of the palms, and the light ing of the new pascal candle, which again, in the tradition of the Trap pists, was made by one of the monks from scraps-of wax candles accumulated over the past several weeks. Holy Communion at a Trappist Abbey is purely a personal experi ence. The actual reception of the Sacrament is at the hands of the Abbot himself, which for the monks concludes a chain of embraces— the “kiss of Peace”—passed from the leader through to the last lay- brother. The measured procession of monks returning to their stalls is in keeping with the solemnity, the tone and the ritual rarely be held in city parishes. The gesture is carried over to the lay male guests who are permitted within the clois ter for this phase of the Mass. And at the conclusion of the rites, all present receive the Ponti fical blessing at the hands of the Abbot. It was two o’clock in the morning when the four-hour cere mony—an episode unmatched in the life and experience of many of those present—came to an end. Bulletins AN ALL-UNITED STATES Na tion Congress of Religious, both men and women, will be held, un der the auspices of the Sacred Con gregation of Religious, at the Uni versity of Notre Dame, August 9- 13. The congress will be the first of its kind in the history of the Church in the United States. Fath er Arcadius Laraona. C. M. F., sec retary and acting prefect of the Sacred Congregation, will come from Vatican City to preside at the congress. USE OF CATHOLIC institu tions and organizations by emerg ency committees to ease the suf ferings of victims of the flood of the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers in the Sioux City areas was offer ed by Bishop Joseph M. Mueller of Sioux City. One Catholic school was transformed into an emerg ency shelter for victims forced from their homes and other insti tutions were put into use im mediately after the flood struck. PRESIDENT TRUMAN has sign ed into law a joint Congressional resolution calling for an annual National Day of Prayer. The resolu tion requires the President to set aside and proclaim a “suitable day other than a Sunday” as an oc casion when the people of the United States may “turn to God in prayer and meditation in churches, in groups, and as individuals.” YALE UNIVERSITY now pos sesses, on microfilm, the most ex tensive collection in the United States of the writings of His Emin ence John Henry Cardinal New man, famous 19th century English convert. DUBLIN— (NCWC) —While ef forts of the ablest and most sin cere statesmen seem unable to stem the advance of communism, “we must not succumb to pessim ism,” Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah^At- lanta and Papal Nuncio to Ireland, said here. “So far as the Church is con cerned,” he added, “we cannot for- ! get that ‘the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The Nuncio spoke at a dinner after a liturgical reception at St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth, dur ing which he was welcomed on be half of the Irish Hierarchy by Archbishop John D’Alton ol Ar magh, Primate of All Ireland. Both the Primate’s address and the . Nuncio's response were domi nated by the thought of the perse cution suffered by Bishops, priests ai.d people in communist-ruled countries—a persecution which Archbishop O’Hara himself had witnessed and experience while serving as Papal representative in Rumania. "The history of Ireland’s penal times enables us to understand something of the sufferings to which the Catholics of Eastern Eu rope are now being subjected,” the Irish Primate said. “Our penal laws were once de scribed as the most savage system ever devised . . . for the degrada tion of a people,” he continued. “Yet even they at times seem lo pale into insignificance when com pared with the diabolical campaign now being waged in many coun tries to root out the Faith from the hearts of the people, to de prive them of the guidance of their pastors, and break the links that bind them to the center of Catholic unity. “The modern persecutors have found means not only of torturing the body but of invading the sanc tuary of the mind, and of breaking down resistance:” Referring to Archbishop O’Hara’s “melancholy privilege” of witness ing the slow martyrdom of the Church in Rumania, the Irish Pri mate added: “Whatever the future has in store for the Catholics of Rumania, they should hold in grateful remembrance your in spiring leadership and the help and encouragement you gave them.” Welcoming the Nuncio as “one of ouir own race,” Archbishop D’Alton concluded: “While we have often deplored the drain of emigration, we can rejoice when our exiles make a more than gen erous return by giving us a son of such eminence to fill the exalted position of Apostolic Nun cio. You are especially welcome as coming from that great Republic of the West to which we are so deeply indebted. We can never forget that when our people were forced to leave their country through the terrible catastrophe of the famine, or later through eco nomic stress, the United States gave many of them more than a home and enabled them to breathe once more the air of freedom.” In his response, Archbishop O'Hara spoke of the joy and “su preme honor” to serve as the Pontiff’s representative in Catho lic Ireland. It has fallen to the lot of Pope Pius XII, he added, to defend not only the Catholic world but all the world against all those savage forces which would banish God from His universe and the special object of whose cruelty is the destruction of the Catholic Church. Speaking of the Pope's “melan choly experience” of seeking Bishops exiled and imprisoned and priests and laity tortured and killed for their refusal to re nounce allegiance to the Holy See, the Nuncio added: “Truly Pope Pius XII has been called upon to be a ‘man of sorrows’ like his Divine Master. “Again and again from the Pope himself I received messages of comfort that it was my privilege to communicate to the Bishops, clergy, religious and faithful to Rumania. As blow after blow was- struck at the liberty of the Church in Rumania, and at the very per sons of the members of the hier archy and clergy in both cases, our Holy Father said again and again: ‘Tell the Bishops, priests, religious and laity that I suffer with them; that I am at their side in these dreadful hours, that I pray for them every day, begging God to shorten the period of their suf fering.’ “In Rumania we could sense the heart of the Holy Father pulsating with tender love and compassion for his suffering children in that To Observe Fifth Centenary of Gutenberg's First Printed Bible Throughout the United States (N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON—The 500th an niversary of the printing of the first Bible, by Johann Gutenberg, acknowledged as the inventor of typography, will be commemorat ed throughout the United States from September 28 to October 4, it has been announced here. The observance will be sponsor ed by the National Center of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine here, which will call on universi ties, colleges and schools, parishes, libraries, fraternal organizations, parish groups and other Catholic organizations to take part in the commemoration. The CCD said the observance will be the second Catholic Bible Week of 1952 and added that it plans a wider commemoration of the week than the first observance, staged from February 10 to 16. The CCD also pointed out that non-Catholics plan an observance of a Bible Week at about the same time to ac quaint Protestants with the new revised standard (Protestant) ver sion of tile Bible. In conjunction with the celebra tion, it has been announced by Postmaster General Jesse Donald son that a commemorative stamp, honoring the Gutenberg work, will he issued on September 30, the Feast of St. Jerome, the Doctor of the Sacred Scriptures. Johann Gutenberg was born about 1400 at Mainz, Germany, the third child in a well-to-do Catholic family. His parents were Frederick and Else Gensfleisch. The name Gutenberg was derived from the ancestral home of the family. Johann Gutenberg was a gold smith, the profession of his anc s- tors, and became highly skillful in working with metal. The art of printing and engraving had been known for several centuries before Gutenberg’s time, but it was prac ticed tediously. Each letter, a block of letters or a whole page was carved out of wood or metal and then discarded after one use. Johann Gutenberg derived his fame from manufacturing metal types of the same sizes, which could be used over repeatedly. After cutting a letter, he impress ed it with a mold of soft metal from which many identical letters were cast. His invention was a forerunner of the old hand-c.t type, and he also reproduced artis tically the original handwriting of books he copied. Johann Gutenberg devoted his life and fortune to perfecting his invention. Although’ the exact date of printing of his Bible is not known, it generally is considered to have been accomplished in 1452. The Bible he published was the Catholic Latin version, the Vulgate. He published his work in folio, with two columns and 42 lines per folio. The Gutenberg art of printing spread rapidly through Europe and virtually every press devoted itself to printing Sacred Scriptures. By 1500, the Scriptures had gone through nearly 100 editions. National Catholic Educational Association Meets in Kansas City (N. C. W. C. News Service) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Arch bishop Joseph E. Ritter of St. Louis was elected the new President General of the National Catholic Educational Association at the as sociation’s 49th convention here. Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt was re-elected to another three-year term as the association’s Secretary General, a post he has held since 1944. The former assistant super intendent of schools in the Cincin nati Archdiocese is also director of the Education Department, Nat ional Catholic Welfare Conference. Three new NCEA department heads were elected during the con vention. They are the Rev. Cyril F. Meyer, C. M., vice president of St. John’s University, to head the college and university department; Msgr. James O’Connell, rector of St. John’s Seminary in Little Rock, Ark., major seminary department; and Msgr. Charles Lynch, rector of the Seminary of Our Lady of Pro vidence, Rhode Island, minor semi nary department. Brother Alexis Klee of Spring- hill, Ala., was re-elected asTiead of the secondary school department, and the Rev. Leo J. McCormick, Baltimore archdiocesan superin tendent of schools, continues as elementary school department head. Re-elected Vice Presidents Gen erals of the NCEA were the Very Rev. John J. Clifford, S. J., of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, 111.; Msgr. Richard B. country, and we knew that this same love and compassion were ex tended to all his children in every country that was suffering under Soviet domination. “The Catholic world is proud of the Pontiff who in the designs of God’s providence, has been called upon to govern the Church in these tragic days. We should not cease to pray for the Holy Father that God may strengthen him in the discharge of the tremendous responsibilties that are his.” The Nuncio concluded with a tribute to the Bishops and clergy of Ireland and voiced a prayer to “God, God’s Holy Mother and St. Patrick to continue to blefes them and the souls entrusted to their’ pastoral care,” McHugh, Brooklyn; the Rev. Wil liam F. Cunningham, professor of education at the University of Notre Dame; Msgr. Joseph V. S. McClancy, Brooklyn diocesan su perintendent of schools; the Rsv. Paul E. Campbell of Pittsburgh, editor of The Catholic Educator; and Brother William Mang of New York. Continuing as Treasurer Gen eral is Msgr. Richard J. Quinlan of Winthrop, Mass. In adopting their resolutions the NCEA delegates noted that “re cent events have sharpened the community’s awareness that all its activities, social, economic, and political, 'should be guided by moral principles, the knowledge and practice of which must be de veloped in its youth.” They also said that “a com munity which understands its democratic heritage must recognize in its traditions an educational diversity that has fostered in our culture a living unity and not a dead uniformity.” The delegates resolved “that Catholic schools strengthen their desire to know and to meet the concrete needs of the community and fully to prepare themselves for the rapidly expanding school popu lation.” FATHER KELLER TO SPEAK IN ATLANTA ATLANTA, Ga.—Father James J. Keller, M. M„ founder of The Christophers, will speak on “The Christopher Movement’’ at the au ditorium of the Sacred Heart School here on Sunday, April 27, at 8 p. m. Father Keller’s lecture will be open to the public. HERBERT H. KENNEDY, .for mer head of General Motors' Fri- gidaire Corporation, in Cleveland, and a member of the Methodist Church, has been named vice-presi dent in charge of development at John Carroll University, conduct ed by the Jesuit Fathers in Cleve land. Commenting on his new post, Mr. Kennedy said: “My examina tion of the Jesuit system of educa tion convinced me that it teaches by reason the very fundamentals upon which our country was found ed ”